One of the things we've started to see emerge from Asian boxing, at least at the world level, have been the body shots. For many fighters the target is the head. It's understandable that many do target the head of a fighter primarily but lets be honest it does seem many fighters do ignore the body of an opponent.

For some the body just doesn't come in to it. Muhammad Ali of course, was famous for not throwing body shots and he's not the only one.

This feature however hopes to bring you footage of some of the best body shot KO's of 2013 all from Asian fighters and all from people who either at the top, or in the case of Masayoshi Nakatani on the way to the top. It's a little strange how often these shots are ending fights when thrown from Asian fighters but it's something that does seem to be happening more and more and that's not a bad thing at all.

What a body shot does, when delivered as perfectly as some of these ones are, is take the fight out of the fighter and leaves them feeling very much "er". The shots can completely knock the wind out of a fighter, they can break the ribs and in some case pretty much paralyze a fighter in pain. A perfect head shot KO knocks a person unconscious and takes them out of their senses as their brain tries to reset, a perfect body shot however keeps them conscious whilst giving them severe agony and a huge amount of pain.

Although the shots we're looking at here are all fight ending, what body shots can also do is grind an opponent down softening them up for later in the fight and also cause a fighter to bring their guard down opening up more space for the headshots. Really good body shots are often the difference between a great fighter and just a very good one.

Masayoshi Nakatani v Shuhei TsuchiyaOf the 3 videos we're using this is the most obscure but yet one o the most impressive because of just how determined Nakatani is to land the perfect body shot and how inexperienced he is.Nakatani (5-0, 4 entering the bout) was viewed as a fighter taking a big step up to take on the big punching Tsuchiya (14-1, 12 entering the bout). As it turned out Nakatani was too big and too well schooled for Tsuchiya who was toyed with by the young upstart.We advise, if you just want to see the big body shots late on, that you start the video at the 7:20 mark as Nakatani drops Tsuchiya soon afterwards before scoring the knockout seconds later. If you'd rather watch the full fight then feel free.This video is thanks to youtube user 45412380.Since this fight Tsuchiya has returned to the ring scoring a low level KO. Nakatani hasn't actually fought, though will return in January as he battles Yoshitaka Kato for the OPBF Lightweight title.